Failed strategy and reality collide in Peter Fey's descriptive narration of air craft carrier USS Oriskany's three deployments to Vietnam with Carrier Air Wing 16 (CVW-16). Its tours coincided with the most dangerous phases of Operation Rolling Thunder, the ill-fated bombing campaign against North Vietnam, and accounted for a quarter of all the naval aircraft lost during Rolling Thunder-the highest loss rate of any carrier air wing during Vietnam. The Johnson Administration's policy of gradually applied force meant that Oriskany arrived on station just as previous restrictions were lifted and bombing raids increased. As a result, CVW-16 pilots paid a heavy price as they ventured into areas previously designated "off limits" by Washington DC. Named after one of the bloodiest battles of the Revolutionary War, the Oriskany lived up to its name. After two years of suffering heavy losses, the ship caught fire-a devastating blow due to the limited number of carriers deployed. With only three months allotted for repairs, Oriskany deployed a third and final time, losing more than half of its aircrafts and more than a third of its pilots. The valor and battle accomplishments of Oriskany's aviators are legendary, but the story of their service has been lost in the disastrous fray of the war itself. Fey resurfaces the Oriskany and its heroes in a well-researched memorial to the fallen of CVW-16 in hopes that the lessons learned from such strategic disasters are not forgotten in today's sphere of war-bent politics. (source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781612349794 20180611

The tiny new state of the United Provinces of the Netherlands won its independence from the mighty Spanish empire by fighting and winning the Eighty Years' War, from 1568 and 1648. In this long conflict, warfare on water played a much bigger role in determining the ultimate victor. On the high seas the fleet carved out a new empire, growing national income to such levels that it could continue the costly war for independence. Yet it was in coastal and inland waters that the most decisive battles were fought. Arguably the most decisive Spanish siege (Leiden, 1574) was broken by a fleet sailing to the rescue across flooded polders, and the battle of Nieuwpoort in 1600, the largest successful invasion fleet before World War II, was one of the most decisive battle in western history. Using detailed full colour artwork, this book shows how the Dutch navies fought worldwide in their war of independence, from Brazil to Indonesia, and from the Low Countries to Angola. (source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781472831651 20181210

The China Factor in Indian Ocean Policy of the Modi and Singh governments

Limitations on China's Ability to Understand Indian Apprehensions about China's Rise as a Naval Power

The Indian Ocean: A Grand Sino-Indian Game of 'Go'

China's Evolving Naval Presence in the Indian Ocean Region: An Indian Perspective

Scenarios for China's Naval Deployment in the Indian Ocean and India's Naval Response

The Subsurface Dimension of Sino-Indian Maritime Rivalry

India's Evolving Maritime Domain Awareness Strategy in the Indian Ocean

India's Naval Interests in the Pacific

The Maritime Silk Route and India: The Challenge of Overcoming Cognitive Divergence

China's Evolving Strategy in the Indian Ocean Region: Risks in China's MSR Initiative

India and China: Terms of Engagement inthe Western Indo-Pacific.

China and India are emerging as major maritime powers of the Indo-Pacific as part of long-term shifts in the regional balance of power. As their wealth, interests, and power expand, China and India will increasingly come into contact in the shared maritime security space of the Indo-Pacific. How India and China get along in that new context - cooperation, coexistence, competition, or confrontation - will be one of the key strategic challenges for the region of the twenty-first century. This book brings together top strategic analysts from India, China, the United States and Australia to better understand Indian and Chinese perspectives about their respective roles and relationship in the maritime domain and their evolving naval strategies towards each other. The strategic blind spots India and China have towards each other may be leading to ever greater competition in the maritime domain. (source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780199479337 20181119

"In previous years, many scholars and policy makers have traditionally viewed portions of the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific as separate and discrete political, economic, and military regions. In recent years, however, a variety of economic, political, and military forces have made many within the academic community, as well as a growing number of national governmental leaders, change their perceptions and view these maritime expanses as one zone of global interaction. As a consequence, political, military, and economic developments in one maritime region increasingly have an impact on the other regions. Analyzing and assessing the perceptions, interests, objectives, maritime capabilities and policies of the major maritime powers operating in this area, as well as the contemporary maritime challenges and opportunities, this valuable study highlights the current prospects for peace and security and evaluates possible alternative scenarios for future developments in what is rapidly becoming recognized as an integrated zone of global interaction."--Provided by publisher.

From muddy creek to naval-industrial powerhouse; from constructing wooden walls to building Dreadnoughts; from maintaining King John's galleys to servicing the enormous new Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers: this is the story of Portsmouth Dockyard. Respected maritime historian Paul Brown's unique 800-year history of what was once the largest industrial organisation in the world is a combination of extensive original research and stunning images. The most comprehensive history of the dockyard to date, it is sure to become the definitive work on this important heritage site and modern naval base. (source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780750989572 20190114

"Close hauled, port tack, all plain sail and steam": The culture of the quarterdeck

"The fleet of to-morrow": Progress and professionalization in the postwar Navy

"The ocean is a great chess-board": The strategical awakening

"The essence of intelligence work": Strategy infiltrates the Office of Naval Intelligence

"A real navy": The war Navy

"To 'organize victory' in advance": the Naval War College and the culture of strategy

"The means to the end": The Navy's culture wars, 1887-97

"War cannot be made by rule of thumb": Strategic acculturation and practice in the Navy, 1894-97.

"This study examines how intellectual and institutional developments transformed the U.S. Navy from 1873 to 1898. The agents of naval transformation embraced a progressive ideology. They viewed science, technology, and expertise as the best means to effect change in a world contorted by modernizing and globalizing trends. Two new cultures--Strategy and Mechanism--influenced the course of transformation."--Provided by publisher.

'Naval tradition? Naval tradition? Monstrous. Nothing but rum, sodomy, prayers and the lash.' This quotation, from Winston Churchill, is frequently dismissed as apocryphal or a jest, but, interestingly, all four of the areas of naval life singled out in it were ones that were subject to major reform initiatives while Churchill was in charge of the Royal Navy between October 1911 and May 1915. During this period, not only were there major improvements in pay and conditions for sailors, but detailed consideration was also given to the future of the spirit ration; to the punishing and eradicating of homosexual practices; to the spiritual concerns of the fleet; and to the regime of corporal punishment that underpinned naval discipline for boy sailors. In short, under Churchill, the Royal Navy introduced a social reform programme perfectly encapsulated in this elegant quip. And, yet, not only has no one studied it; many people do not even know that such a programme even existed. This book rectifies that. It shows that Churchill was not just a major architect of welfare reform as President of the Board of Trade and as Home Secretary, but that he continued to push a radical social agenda while running the Navy. (source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780198759973 20181022

Chapter 4 April 1939-1941: management and growth of the `civilian' service

Chapter 5 Becoming a Wren: meritocracy over social position

Chapter 6 Subversion of the combat taboo

Chapter 7 Social perceptions and relationships in the service Postscript: The service post-war and the impact on the Wrens Notes Bibliography Index.

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The Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) was created in 1917, re-formed in 1938 and maintained after 1945. This book determines for the first time the reasons for the expansion and contraction of the service and the impact key individuals had on it and in turn the influence it had on its members. Hannah Roberts offers new insights into a previously little studied British military institution, which celebrates its centenary in 2017. She shows how political and military decision-making within the fluctuating national security situation, coupled with a growing cultural acceptability of women taking on military roles, allowed for the growth of the service in World War II into realms never expected of women. Although it shared a similar pattern in its formation to the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) and had a similar ethos to its Air Force counterpart, the WAAF, the WRNS took on a wider-ranging role in the war, in part due to the latitude afforded to the service because of its uniquely independent origins. From 1941 onward the WRNS spread internationally and subverted the combat taboo by adopting semi-combatant roles. Using twenty-one new oral histories and a multitude of archived personal documents, this book demonstrates the pivotal importance of the Women's Royal Naval Service in both the world wars. (source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781788310017 20180312

The heyday of the General Board: from Washington to London and after, 1922-31

Innovation and decline, 1932-41

Phoenix or Icarus? The resurgence and death of the General Board, 1941-51

Epilogue. America's first general staff

Appendix 1. General orders relating to the establishment and reorganization of the General Board of the Navy

Appendix 2. Secretaries of the Navy, 1900-1951

Appendix 3. General Board studies produced in 1901.

"The General Board of the Navy, existing from 1900 to 1950, was a uniquely American and unparalleled strategic planning organization at the time of its establishment. As John T. Kuehn shows, this was the United States' first modern general staff in peacetime, as well as the nexus for naval thought and strategic thinking. The Board's creation was very much a reflection of the reformist spirit of the times that also gave birth to the Army War College, the Army General Staff, and the Chief of Naval Operations. By the 1920s, the General Board was a permanent feature of the Navy and was regarded as the premier strategic "think tank" for advice to the Secretary of the Navy. The service of the men who comprised it is little-known, but their collaborative ethos should serve as a model for their modern counterparts. Kuehn's work offers both the first single-volume history of the General Board of the Navy, as well as analysis of the U.S. Navy during periods of great transition in both peace and war."--Provided by publisher.